Organic Gardener Podcast

Jeff Lowenfels author of the Teaming With Microbes Soil Trilogy shares his system for creating healthy organic ecosystems and how we can all work to save the world if we just answer the question What would Greta think? If you wondered why we changed the name to the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast there will be no doubt when you finish with this amazing episode. Get ready for Jeff to drop Golden Seeds Galore! JEFF LOWENFELS "LORD OF THE ROOTS" AUTHOR OF THE SOIL TRIOLOGY:https://amzn.to/2IRsoiY ()https://amzn.to/2UnbCOC ()https://amzn.to/2NBxLIa () https://amzn.to/2IRsoiY (Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web) https://amzn.to/2NBxLIa (Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition)and https://amzn.to/2UnbCOC (TEAMING WITH FUNGI)https://amzn.to/2UnbCOC (The Organic Grower’s Guide to Mycorrhizae)AND NOW HIS NEW https://amzn.to/33G6QAA (BOOK): https://amzn.to/33G6QAA () https://amzn.to/2rtq7Xv (DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to

Are you wondering why we are rebranding ourselves as the GREEN Organic Gardener Podcast? Listen here to learn what's new! Get ready for our first episode as thehttps://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/304-the-organic-gardener-soil-food-web-expert-jeff-lowenfels/ ( Green Organic Gardener Podcast where Jeff Lowenfels author of Teaming with Microbes, Teaming With Nutrients and Teaming With Fungi )and his new book on DIY Cannabis, from Anchorage Alaska prepare to be dazzled! Afterall what would Greta think? Love all of you green future growers out there! Do you have your climate story ready? Hey there Green Future Growers! thanks for joining us today. If you're new to the show, I hope you'll subscribe on iTunes or your favorite Android app and let's get growing. 18s JackieMarie Hey everybody, JackieMarie Beyer here, I'm driving to work so there might be a little static in the background, but this is like a good place for me to record, I feel like because it's kind of quiet in my car for me and I don't know

https://mailchi.mp/9fc2f7aa40ff/familygardenplan (Don't forget to enter the Melissa K. Norris Giveaway to win a copy of her new awesome book!)  https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/clickherebutton.jpghttps://mailchi.mp/9fc2f7aa40ff/familygardenplan () So, if you listened to the https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/health-coach-fab-fertile/ (interview I did with Sarah Clark) from the https://fabfertile.com/project/podcast/ (Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast)who challenged me to try an Elimination Diet where I gave up the top 5 allergens for 10 days. And I did it. And I wanted to share my results. It's EasyI mention thehttps://www.mealtrain.com/trains/k2g1ev/donate/ (Jill Angie Not Your Average Runner) podcast too who talks about a mindset shift from https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/k2g1ev/donate/ ("I Can Do Hard Things" to "It's Easy"). Kate Erikson has a great saying  "Gratitude is the First Seed of Abundance"And I tried it, I thought what am I going to eat if I can't eat: soy

Jackie, Great! Then I feel I may have something of value for your audience. We have a flock of Gotland sheep, and that is our main focus along with offering Farmstead vacations to people. Oh now that may be an angle you would like to explore, adding agritourism to your farm business! I can talk about that for days on end. We also raise pigs and use them to reclaim pasture and to add nutrients to the soil. We do have a small garden and hoop house, but I only grow for our own needs and do not sell produce. We do however, sell our pork. We, at some point, may offer lamb, as in to eat, however, right now we are growing our flock and concentrating on selling breeding stock. I am not a vegan, so if that would be offensive to your audience, then warning should be given.  We are NOT certified organic, but 99% of what we do is organic.  Ha! I graduated from high school in 1980. I think what may be inspiring for those listening is that our homestead grew out of a desire to teach our children about life a

Melissa K. Norris from Modern Homesteading the https://melissaknorris.com/podcast-2/ (Pioneering Today Podcast) where everything is homegrown and homemade! https://melissaknorris.com/familygardenplan/ (The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food)  Gardeners are so excited to share what we have learned with others who are interested and I feel like that is what we get to do on garden podcasts! And I love podcasts!Want to read my Golden Seeds Shownotes? There's even two versions a long version that's the https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/gsi16melissanorrispioneeringtodaypodcast-1.pdf (full transcript) and a https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/gsi16melissanorrishandwritten.pdf (short version). I’m a 5th generation homestead and as a youngster I didn’t appreciate it. My dad lived through the Great Depression so if hey didn’t raise it they didn’t eat through the winter. I thought everyone grew up like that. With a garden preserving food

Read my this issue of the Golden Seeds Newsletter here.https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/goldenseedsissue15sarahhardingcompassionateconversationsaboutclimate.pdf (GoldenSeedsIssue15SarahHardingCompassionateConversationsAboutClimate)Sarah Harding from https://coconutatsea.com/ (Coconut at Sea Soap Co).Friday, November 22, 2019 I’m super excited and https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/95-sarah-harding-buggy-road-farm-growing-microgreens-in-whitefish-mt/ (last time she shared a ton of golden seeds with listeners )and she’s kind of changed directions so here she’s here to tell us about her new venture the https://coconutatsea.com/ (Coconut at Sea Soap Company). We grew up in North County San Diego. We spent our childhood lives loving the ocean and surfing. We moved to Montana when we were 22 and spent the second half of our lives farming, fishing, and raising a family. Now we're https://coconutatsea.com/ (Coconut at Sea Soap Company).A family business committed to giving our all in ev

The biggest question I’ve gotten this year again. Is what do I do for my earth friendly landscape and what do I do with all these dandelions? But I was at someone’s place the other day, I could just tell right off the bat, looking down, you don’t have very healthy soil, so I suggested planting some clover, and then also  IDK if they have a bag for their lawnmower so when they mow they might be spreading those seeds, where if they put them in the compost pile it would be better. I think… Anyway… It’s Thursday May 30, 2019. I’m feeling a little mic shy as I haven’t been on my mic for almost a month! David Thompson from Food Is Free Tacoma is here to share his journey. Tell us a little about yourself. I’m a navy veteran, 35 year mechanic, and I am retired. Wht I do is I have a free table and everything I grow in my garden I give away. Tell us a little bit more, how did you get started with this? Did you just say one day I want to put a table in front of your

Interview 289 with Health Coach Sarah Clark | Author of Fabulously Fertile + Host of Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast https://fabfertile.com/ (https://fabfertile.com/) Thursday May 2, 2019 I have another podcaster on the line we are going to talk about eating healthy today. The Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast. Thanks for being on the show today. This is something that touches me personally, because Mike and I never had kids. I always tell people if I would have had my iPod touch when I was trying to get pregnant I’m sure we would have had kids. But anyway tech has come so far so I’m glad you have some solutions for people! Tell people about your podcast and business. I help couples who are struggling with infertility. I had my own struggle I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure at the age of 28 and that is the loss of function of the ovaries before the age of 40. For me I had these weird health systems cycles were irregular urinary tract infections acne in early 20s cycles were irregular I

Read the text version of my interview here: https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/goldenseedsissue13tadhussey-1.pdf (Golden Seeds Issue 13 Tad Hussey) My interview with https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/291-industrial-hemp-project/tara-caton/ (Tara Caton At the Rodale Institute Hemp Botanist) I’m curious how you found out about me. Haha, IDK? Well, one I’m always looking for guests! But I did just release for Earth Day April 22, 2019, this interview with https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/291-industrial-hemp-project/tara-caton/ (Tara Caton from  the Rodale institute )last week and since then I have been online researching hemp and cannabis and I am just flabbergasted at what has changed because when I started my podcast in 2015, I couldn’t find someone to come on my show and talk about hemp or cannabis for 4/20 day. The other thing is I have always dreamed of being a sunflower farmer, and originally I thought I would sell sunflowers to florists, but then I thought bird seed would suit me b

https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/goldenseeds12.neildiboll.prairie.pdf (GoldenSeeds#12.NeilDiboll.Prairie) The Golden Seeds aren’t perfect but it’s a start. I like to read them in PDF format better what about you? Neil Diboll, President of Prairie Nursery, Inc. On the Web:  http://www.prairienursery.com/ (www.prairienursery.com) http://www.facebook.com/prairienursery (www.facebook.com/prairienursery) 1-800-476-9453 (1-800-GRO-WILD) We would love to help you with anything and even help you find some seeds or plants that would grow! Gardens are  focused on needs desires of humans only life gardening for all farms plants          animals critters bugs sustainable ecosystem on people’s properties native plants. The real importance of native plants is that they have co-evolved with other linked to one brought to another long periods f coevolution support very few of other invertebrates adaptation foundation of the food change limited value ecology what reso

Tara Caton https://rodaleinstitute.org/science/articles/update-industrial-hemp-research/ (Rodale Institute) Senior Lab Technician Industrial Hemp Project Lead It all started when this listener said, every time I hear you say millennial I think of this video of this guy bashing millennials sitting around in their yoga pants and so I made my own video of the amazing millennials I interview who are so not ever lazy. I was going through some old Organic Gardening Magazines. A lot of my listeners are asking me how to get rid of pests organically and there were all these letters to the editors saying I’m not ever reading to you again because you are too political and they answered back and said we believe they are integrated and you can’t have one without the other.  I have always wanted to sell ad space for Rodale’s so I would see Organic Gardening Magazine in every store i went to as I traveled around.  It is Tuesday March 26, 2019. I am so stoked because not only is my guest a rock star mi

I’m so excited! On Tuesday I talked to https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/291-industrial-hemp-project/ (Tara at the Rodale Institute) and she got me so excited about all the things going on in the Hemp World. I’m so excited to introduce Josh Mezher from A https://apotforpot.com (Pot For Pot.) If you want to read the https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/goldenseeds11288.joshmezherpot4apot-1.pdf (Golden Seeds just click here.) Are you a Rockstar Millennial born between 1980 and 1995? I was born in 1986 Awesome! I’m writing a book about the rockstar millennials I interview on my show! Tell us a little about yourself. Been in the cannabis industry for about a decade now. I moved from the UK to go to school at the USC Santa cruz. I moved here at a great time where you could legally grow your own cannabis at home and walk down the street and take it to a medical dispensary. I actually dropped out of school hobbies I always loved gardening and it’s an amazing plant to grow! I love all o

Thursday, March 28, 2019! It is a pleasure to be here! Thanks for dealing with my tech problems gla we were able to connect! Back in the spring of 2009, my wife asked me to plant a small garden so she could can some salsa for the winter. Laid off- started farming with a tractor on 2 acres (terribly!), got into chickens, laying hens, pigs, and even a few cows. And after a radical diet and lifestyle change that followed our Daughter health crisis we started to consume large amounts of Vegetables, a lot less meat and in the fall of 2015 we made a leap of faith to sell our meat business, stop using a tractor, and farm using only one acre. Our farming friends thought we were insane, but we were pretty certain that focusing on just produce would allow us to master the lettuce crop in 2016. We had lettuce for sale every week that season! We were so thrilled to discover that we tripled our income on half the amount of land that year! Excited and inspired, we knew we were heading in the right direction. By fo

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattpowers/permaculture-soil-science-and-solutions-book-and-course () https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattpowers/permaculture-soil-science-and-solutions-book-and-course (Permaculture Soil Science & Solutions) KICKSTARTER campaign Matt Powers Rockstar Millennial, high school English and Social Studies Teacher, and Permacutlure Curriculum designer is here to share his amazing journey and passion to teach everyone he can reach about the power of permaculture. Working with some of the most scientific names in the field including Elaine Ingham, David Montgomery and the Geoff Lawton Matt is on a mission to change the way we look at soil in the 21st century.   Matt was my guest on https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/132-replay-matt-powers/ (episode 132) where he shared his amazing garden journey from professional bass player to high school educator to science curriculum creator! This episode is a must listen for any master gardeners or even novices who want to

Matt Powers is an experienced teacher, family guy, author, consultant, farmer, seed saver, plant breeder, musician, blogger, & permaculturist and creator of the permaculture student curriculum and online course. Permaculture Student Online Curriculum The Permaculture Student Curriculum is focused on starting resilient small businesses and homesteads from scratch. Students of all ages and families learn through weekly collections of videos, worksheets, coloring pages, projects, activities, & critical thinking with teacher’s guides, recipes, plant focus, seed saving, & Q&A. http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com () Mike found a great guest on Facebook yesterday, we are having a bit of a tech issue, but he is dropping lots of “golden seeds” about everything from gardening to promoting an online business, and running a positive Kickstarter campaign! Plus he’s a fellow educator! Interesting that you guys found me yesterday!!! http://www.thepermaculturestudent.com () Tell

http://www.terrabirds.org (Terra BIRDS )educates and empowers youth through gardening to help prepare them as the stewards of a sustainable future for humanity. Regan Emmons is here to share her story of teaching elementary and high school students how to garden as well as about her seedling CSA model! Tell us a little about yourself. My first podcast! So very exciting! I live in Flagstaff, AZ, I have really awesome job very fortunate to work with elementary school students, high school students and I run a 100 member seedling CSA farm, that runs about Jan through the end 0f May. The rest of the year I’m doing a lot of planning and educating and so forth. Tell me about your first gardening experience? I am from Tennessee. One of my formative experiences of being in a garden, working in a garden, I was in high school and I was living with my mother. We had to move into s small apartment on the ground floor. And my mother being the tenacious woman she is, talked the landlord into tilling up the little space

https://aeromt.org () Brian Moody shares his passion for organic food gardening and https://aeromt.org (AERO Montana) in this must listen interview. A rockstar millennial to boot, he worked at https://www.terrabirds.org (Terra Birds) in Arizona where https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/106-regan-emmons-terra-birds-az/ (Reagon Emmons) worked as well. Listen to my interview with her here as well. Tell us a little about yourself. East of Yellowstone in Wyoming avid gardeners looking back on it is pretty impressive now all throughout the rocky mountain early and late frosts lots of other challenges I remember growing up and eating fresh carrots and peas from the garden, big influence on me. We moved around quite a bit moving back to Montana and then Flagstaff, Arizona ~ down there, I gained a whole other perspective on farming indigenous folks down there and hopi people. Learning about how they farm and gardenI I never had my own farm or garden business How do we connect with you? you can connect thoug

I’m so excited! It’s Monday March My guest has been here before but he’s started his own podcast the http://www.roughdraftfarmstead.com (No-Till Market Gardener Podcast )and from Kentucky he’s here to tell us about their  garden journey and a rockstar millennial right? There’s Jesse Frost to tell us about his podcast and farmstead! Tell us a little about yourself. I am one half of the farm team, my wife Hannah Crabtree is the other half, arguably the better half. We’re in Central Kentucky about 25 min hour from Louisville nw of lexington. Kind of in the middle of the state it’s a pretty hopping spot as far as Kentucky goes. We have 3/4 of an acre mixed vegetables Our 4 year old has 10 chickens! Mostly we have vegetables. Our entire farm is 100% no tillage I’m happy to talk about that The podcast is geared towards that http://www.roughdraftfarmstead.com (No-Till Market Gardener Podcast) growers like ourselves who are small production but trying to make a living off our vegetables. farm ec

I thought I should replay this episode from last winter because the applications for School Gardens opens in 2 weeks on September 1st and I thought educators and people who want to help get a garden in their school would be interested. Applications are due by October 15th. I’m just thrilled to be back behind the mic it’s January 7th. I have a great guest that was recommended by https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/256-growing-spaces/ (Lem Tingley) from Growing Spaces in https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/256-growing-spaces/ (episode 256) and here from the https://www.wholekidsfoundation.org/ (Whole Kids Foundation) is Nona Evans! https://www.wholekidsfoundation.org/ ( ) https://www.facebook.com/wholekidsfoundation/ (Whole Kids Foundation Facebook Page) It’s always so much fun to see how seeds that you sprinkled about germinate. It’s so fun to know how we connected! Thank you so much! I reached out to you and you said you checked out the podcast and thought it’d be a perfect fi

https://amzn.to/2KmDeRb () Today I am so excited to introduce my guest https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/77-quinn-organic-farms/ (Bob Quinn who is back) to tell us about his new book https://amzn.to/2KmDeRb (Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food) https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/goldenseedsissue7bobquinn.pages_.pdf (You can read the Golden Seeds Issue #7 here if you prefer!) https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/goldenseedsissue7bobquinn.pages_.pdf () Here’s my 5 star review, make sure you write yours! Thanks so much for sending me your book, you were worried if I would be able to read it and then I whipped through it in under 48 hours was so engaging! Thanks Jackie! It was a lot of fun to write  with Liz who is a great partner who made the story easy to read. She was able to keep it free flowing from one topic to another. There’s so many things to discuss, it’s a bit of a challenge to meet the limitations that they